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Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Williams broke into stardom on the teen soap Dawson's Creek
and has graduated from juvenile roles in a series of art house films, most recently in Brokeback Mountain
.

Early life

Born in Kalispell, Montana, she is the eldest of the five children of Larry, a commodities broker, and Carla Williams, a homemaker.

When she was nine, her family moved to San Diego, California. Her mother took her to auditions in Los Angeles where she won her first film role, as a space alien who turned into a humanoid played by Natasha Henstridge in the movie Species
(1995).

She graduated from high school at fifteen and was emancipated from her parents so she could pursue an acting career. She won several small roles before she was cast as Jen Lindley on Dawson's Creek
, the part that would make her a star.

Career

On Dawson's Creek, her character, only fifteen, had been too much for her parents to handle, drinking, partying, and having sex from age twelve, so she was exiled from her home in New York City to live in Capeside, Massachusetts with her maternal grandmother. Jen was everything her grandmother was not: jaded, cynical, irreligious, and more, leading to frequent arguments and her eventually being kicked out of the house. The show ran for six seasons, from 1998 to 2003.

Her first starring role in films was as Arlene in Dick, a satire of the Watergate scandal, in which she starred with Kirsten Dunst. She has been in a half-dozen subsequent films, some of them well-reviewed such as The Station Agent
and Me Without You
but few have been commercial successes.

Her biggest hits came from supporting roles in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
and Brokeback Mountain
. For Mountain, she won a Critics Choice Award and received a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Private life

She is engaged to actor Heath Ledger and gave birth to their first daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger, on October 28, 2005. The couple met on the set of Brokeback Mountain, where they played husband and wife, and live in Brooklyn, New York.

Partial filmography

The Baxter
(2005)
Brokeback Mountain
(2005) – Academy Award nomination
Imaginary Heroes
(2004)
Land of Plenty (2004)
The Station Agent
(2003)
The United States of Leland
(2003)
Prozac Nation
(2001)
Me Without You
(2001)
If These Walls Could Talk 2
(2000) (TV)
But I'm a Cheerleader
(1999)
Dick (1999)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
(1998)
Dawson's Creek
(1998) (TV series)
A Thousand Acres
(1997)
Killing Mr. Griffin (1997) (TV)
Species (1995)
Lassie (1994)

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Actors - Michelle Williams

Early life

Career

Private life

Partial filmography

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